1/4 I watched "Joker" with my wife earlier this week. Political activists are trying to score points—the film's director, Todd Philips, complained about "cancel culture" leading up to its release—but I don't think the film is reducible to a partisan interpretation.
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2/4 Throughout the film, I was thinking about a story I wrote earlier this year about Christopher Morisette, a man born at Western State Hospital, abandoned by his family, and shuffled through a series of foster homes, jails, rehabs, and mental health facilities.
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3/4 Finally, this year, he went on a rampage through the streets of Seattle, stabbing three random people, then stripping off his clothes and running onto the freeway.https://www.city-journal.org/seattle-stabbings …
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4/4 Joaquin Phoenix sums up our challenge in his final monologue: "What do you get when you cross a mentally ill loner with a society that abandons him & treats him like trash?" There are no easy answers.
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